SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — South Korean Prime Minister Han Duk-soo mentioned Thursday that the nation will maintain its import ban on Japan’s fishery merchandise in place, in an deal with made after Japan began dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean earlier within the day.
Han instructed a nationally televised deal with that the South Korean authorities will sternly preserve import restrictions on Japan’s fishery merchandise, stressing that the issues amongst South Korean individuals concerning the easing or lifting of import restrictions on Japanese seafood won’t ever be realized.
Seoul has prohibited the import of all fishery merchandise from eight Japanese prefectures, together with Fukushima, and 27 agricultural merchandise from 15 different prefectures, whereas all meals imported from different Japanese areas have been completely examined for radioactivity, Han mentioned.
The prime minister famous that the import restrictions have been imposed to guard South Korean individuals from radioactive supplies following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.
Han mentioned Japan ought to strictly adjust to scientific requirements and transparently present data because it promised to the worldwide neighborhood, and urged Tokyo to transparently and responsibly provide South Korea related data on the nuclear-contaminated wastewater discharge that may proceed for the subsequent 30 years.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant, mentioned earlier within the day that it began discharging the primary batch of radioactive wastewater from the crippled plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Hit by an enormous earthquake and an ensuing tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima energy plant suffered core meltdowns and generated an enormous quantity of water tainted with radioactive substances from cooling down the nuclear gas.